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From: John Whitley <whitley@cse.buffalo.edu>
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Subject: initialization of instance variables
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I'm curious as to why class instance variable definitions cannot be
used in following instance variable definitions, only in methods and
initializers.  Is this an implmentation-driven restriction, or is
there some more subtle semantics-based reason to prevent this?

-- John